- 異常【いじょう】 - strangeness, abnormality, disorder 
- 異なる【ことなる】 - to differ, to be different, to disagree, to vary, to diverge 
- 異議【いぎ】 - objection, dissent, protest 
- 異動【いどう】 - (personnel) change, transfer, relocation, reassignment, reshuffle 
- 特異【とくい】 - unique, peculiar, singular 
- 異性【いせい】 - the opposite sex, isomerism 
- 異星人【いせいじん】 - alien (from another planet) 
- 異端【いたん】 - heresy 
- 異例【いれい】 - exceptional, unusual, extraordinary, unprecedented, singular 
- 異論【いろん】 - different opinion, objection 
- 異質【いしつ】 - different (quality, nature), heterogeneous 
- 異変【いへん】 - unusual event, strange occurrence, strange phenomenon, something abnormal, change (for the worse), accident, disaster 
- 変異【へんい】 - variation, rogue (something) 
- 異色【いしょく】 - unique, distinctive, novel, singular, unusual, special, different color (colour) 
- 驚異【きょうい】 - wonder, miracle, amazement, prodigy 
- 異名【いみょう】 - another name, nickname, alias, synonym (taxonomy) 
- 異様【いよう】 - bizarre, strange, eccentric, odd, queer 
- 異文【いぶん】 - variant (in a manuscript or book), part of a text that differs from other versions 
- 異国【いこく】 - foreign country 
- 差異【さい】 - difference, disparity, gap